To ask what little things your partner does that niggle the hell out of you!!

[DannyOD]

(Lighthearted!!). Whenever my dh makes toast or a sandwich he always puts it on a whacking great dinner plate instead of a tea plate and for some reason it annoys the hell out of me!!!

“not putting hand towels back neatly so they get damp and smelly”

Mine is pretty lazy about most things, but is INCREDIBLY. FASTIDIOUS. About folding tea towels lengthway once, twice, then putting them back on the oven rail. So that they never ever dry. I ask him not to, he agrees not to, he forgets and carries on doing it. OH MY GOD WHY. Can’t he use that energy for something else??

Mine takes the not folded at all tea towel from the oven rail and then folds it twice and slings it on top of the cooker! I tell him that all it'll take is the toddler to come in unnoticed and turn a hob on for the house to be burned to the ground, it doesn't seem to go in though!

Is anyone else’s husband only able to remember to do 2/3 things at once? Eg if they hang up the towels correctly and put the loo seat down they will not remember their door keys or similar.

talking incoherently whilst brushing her teeth. it drives me mad!

All sorts but yesterday he left 2 lights on while i was at work. Pissed me off

Takes ages to start simple jobs. Takes ages to finish off them. There is always another tool that must be purchased(even if we already have it).

This has made me feel slightly less insane for finding so many tiny things so annoying!! I do really love my partner but these drive me up the bloody wall:
Not closing cupboard doors and me near knocking myself out every time I walk into the kitchen
Those stupid little black sock bits all over my carpet
The moaning about all his clothes being in the wash when he wears something for 5 minutes, leaves it on the floor so I don't know if it's clean or dirty and wash it anyway
Making my dressing table chair the 'stuff' chair... it isn't for 'stuff' it's for me getting ready!!!
When he actually does a job then tells me how I've been doing it wrong the past 100 times I've done it... e.g when I've been dusting I haven't got the top of the window frames apparently
THE CONSTANT FUCKING TAPPING

😡 turns on his bedside light two minutes before leaving the bedroom and then does not turn it off, so it is on for all the time he is not in the room all day and off when he is actually in there at night (as I have done it by then).
😡 sighs as if the world is ending for no reason (to get attention) - God knows how he would escalate the performance if there was actually ever something wrong!

What with all the sock-related moans on here... I get irritated by my DH wearing his trainers without socks. OK, sometimes I put mine on my bare feet as well, but I feel I should be allowed to, and not him!

The list gets longer with every year that passes! Slurps his tea... Makes toast on a clean surface without wiping it afterwards...puts stuff near the dishwasher but not in it...shuffles his feet while watching tv...makes stupid noises when he’s asleep...I could go on all day!

Oh, I forgot the pre leaving the house faffing! He will go around looking for things that he’s had all day to sort, and put things in little piles, just as we are ready to leave the house, and make us late.

'Babe, have I got any socks'....

I DONT KNOW, MAYBE LOOK IN THE SOCK DRAW 🤪

Mine also fills the sink with hot water to soak the pots and then just leaves them until the water goes cold

And this!! Leaving things 'to soak' basically because he can't be arsed to actually wash them & then I have to put my hands in the gross cold foody water 😷

Mine also fills the sink with hot water to soak the pots and then just leaves them until the water goes cold

And this!! Leaving things 'to soak' basically because he can't be arsed to actually wash them & then I have to put my hands in the gross cold foody water 😷
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^YES! He washes everything else up but the most difficult pan or dish he will leave to 'soak' and never goes back to it so I end up doing it! I mean, it probably does need to soak but he always then forgets about it! Also, collecting cutlery in his work bag. I found 5 spoons, 3 forks and 2 knives in there the other day* 

I can't think of anything! Although I'm aware I'm probably annoying which probably prevents me from feeling that way about him 😂

Dorabean are we talking about the same man?! Mine isn't allowed anything that requires cutlery now at work. He never brought them home and I'd end up eating my dinner with a spoon because we had no forks.

I managed to get him to bring his lunch box home a few times by leaving notes in it saying I'd murder him if he didn't 😂

Shopping.

Buys buys buys and never ever gets rid of anything or puts anything away. We are packed to rafters with clutter.

So we have garage full of large and expensive tools that have been used once....... but we can scarcely get bikes out which are used daily.

We have almost daily Amazon deliveries. I have to tidy up after every single one. Ie put packaging in bin and find like home for new item.

He totally refuses to time an online grocery shop for when I'm out, even though we have teenage DCs who are willing and able to help with putting food away. Grrr!

I have been on ‘heightened partner watch’ over the last few days as a result of this thread (poor thing!). I now add -
Shouting from another room in response to me saying something ‘I can’t hear you from here’ - thereby demonstrating (cos it’s deafening) that we can actually both hear each other.
Checking the fridge is shut on each entrance into the kitchen !
Starting the car before I’m even sitting down let alone buckled up etc. I do not do this back although it’s tempting.
Refusing ever to park on the wrong side of petrol pump and pull the hose over. Lots of waiting around involved as a result.

Doesn't put the lid down on the toilet.

Leaves toenails on bedside table.

Doesn't look for things properly.

Apparently doesn't know where certain things go in the kitchen cupboards. How can you not know where things go in your own house? The funny thing is, he manages to work it out when he wants to use said item but can't figure it out when it comes to emptying the dishwasher.

Never feeds the cats unless I specifically ask him, even though they get fed at the same times every day and are usually meowing insistently, and even then he tries to delegate it to DD!

This goes for DD as well...I'll ask for something to be done e.g. sorting some belongings of theirs out that have been dumped somewhere and it will not get done unless I nag and nag and eventually say 'Please sort your stuff right now'. I'd just love someone to do something without my direct instruction as it makes me feel really bossy but there's only so many times you can casually mention that something needs doing.

I'm absolutely sure I have my own irritating habits!

Mine walks into things. Door frames, tables, the sofa, the toddler etc. No underlying medical issue, he just doesn't pay attention!

What is it about an inability to replace toilet rolls?!

Also, cramming bins fill until overflowing, to avoid having to empty it.

Leaving the fridge door open while dithering around in the kitchen

Almost every day losing the remote in the sofa...why not just put it on the table right in front of you?l And then I get moaned at when I refuse to help look for it.

Unable to find anything unless it literally jumps out at him

Finding used ear buds everywhere...he argues that he only uses them to clean behind his ears, like that makes a difference!

Opening new stuff before the old is used up

Obviously, clothes everywhere, wet clothes/towels left in heaps to get mouldy

Washing up - does the easy stuff, leaves yucky stuff to soak in cold water

This is not a complete list! I sometimes wonder if I’m just a very irritable person or if it’s him.I do hope it’s him.

I'd LOVE to read a thread like this from the husband's it would be hilarious

Oh, and the noise! Constant throat clearing, unnecessary coughing and sniffing! Noise cancelling headphones have been my Best Buy this year.

Opens a new carton of milk before the other one is finished!

Sleeps on my white leather £2500 sofa!! Literally I had to peel he’s sweaty head off it this morning? How is he incapable of dragging he’s back side upstairs?!